USA v. Orlando Romero Contreras

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 12-14185
Non-Argument Calendar
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D.C. Docket No. 3:94-cr-03067-RV-mcr-2
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
ORLANDO ROMERO CONTRERAS,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Florida
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(May 7, 2013)
Before HULL, PRYOR and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
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Orlando Romero Contreras appeals the denial of his motion for a further
reduction of his sentence. 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). The district court sentenced
Contreras to concurrent terms of 408 months of imprisonment for conspiring to
possess and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. 21
U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1), 846. Later, the district court reduced Contreras’s
sentences to concurrent terms of 293 months of imprisonment. Contreras sought a
further reduction based on a fast-track program established by the Department of
Justice. We affirm.
The district court did not err. A district court may sometimes reduce a
sentence of imprisonment when it was based on a guidelines range that has since
been lowered, United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 1B1.10(1)(1)–(2),
(c), but Contreras cannot obtain a reduction of his sentence based on a program
created by the Department of Justice.
We AFFIRM the denial of Contreras’s motion to reduce his sentence.
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